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Graphic and gritty, Jim Thompson’s The Grifters is a 1963 pulp favorite representing hard-boiled fiction at its best. Even abridged, the book’s plot offers more twists and turns than the current movie. Ghost villain Tony Goldwyn performs with a gusto not heard since the golden days of radio. B+